Car chase ends in wreck in Lee County

A Lee County mother watched as deputies arrested her son after a car chase ended in a crash.

It happened early Wednesday morning at the corner of Ortiz Avenue and Jupiter Road.

Pieces of glass could be seen scattered on the ground of the empty lot where the car crashed. One of the suspect's mom, Hermina Hernandez, told NBC2 she tried to get close to the wreck but heard law enforcement yelling about a gun and stayed away.

Deputies report her son, Jose Hernandez, and two other men tried to rob another man with a gun. Deputies chased the getaway car to the empty lot.

"It looked like they were having a carnival here," Mary Stocking said. "There were so many police vehicles here."

Stocking and her sister heard the commotion in the middle of the night and got up to see what was happening.

"We got out of bed to come over here and by the time I got out of bed there were about 10-15 police cars, ambulances, fire trucks," Stocking said.

Hernandez, along with Jose Solis and Joshua Melendez, face felony robbery charges. All three are being held on no bond.